Category: Search Engine Optimization

There is a great new Wrox book out combining my favorite language (besides French) PHP with search engine optimization. Written by Jaimie Sirovich and Cristian Darie of SEO Egghead, this book teaches search engine optimization

Many Google employees spend a large portion of their time personally helping webmasters and SEO’s get a better understanding of Google. They also provide tips on fixing their websites’ problems and clarify Google’s crawling technology.

Want to get more votes for your article or blog post? This new service by Collactive lets you spam submit your content for a peer review voting similar to digg. Since the service is new,

As reported by Danny and Barry, Volkswagen was busted for using hidden text on their homepage. Instead of creating a search friendly alternative to their unindexable flash homepage, they tried to use a hidden div

Sara Smith does a great interview of Rand Fishkin on Search This. I really respect rand for offering so much information about SEO, and he is great at explaining search engines in a very user

Forbes has an article about the Google supplemental index, and as usual for a major publication, gets many facts about Google wrong, despite Andy Greenberg interviewing Aaron Wall, Jim Boykin and Michael Gray. To summarize

Successful websites get a lot of traffic, and usually there is a skilled SEO behind this. Its hard to have an online business with no visitors, which is why the first websites were directories that

Successful websites have a lot of links pointing to them. People link to websites they like and sites that make their life easier. Encouraging linking is done by creating linkbait. Here is a great post